BEFORE THE RAIN DVD

Movie Description:
The first film made in the newly independent Republic ofWacedonia, Milcho Manchevski`s BEFORE THE RAIN crosscuts the stories of an orthodoxChristian monk, a British photoagent, and a native Macedonianwar photographerto paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred aboutto reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties, this gripping triptych of love andviolence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoralinnocence, and remains oneof recent cinema`s most powerful laments on thefutility of war.